Example sentences of "and so [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the third servant says Well no if I if I go out and buy something something might go wrong and I 'll lose the talent , and so he hides it away in the drawer . |
| 2 | Linear , realistic plot is inseparable from the forces of law and order to him , and so he seizes every opportunity to cut across the plot-sequence with digressions , ‘ Cowgirl Interludes ’ , commentaries and even a recipe . |
| 3 | This particular skill of Tamburlaine 's is a recurrent theme from start to finish , and we first notice it when he is confronted by Theridamas. he realises that the odds are stacked high in Theridamas ' favour when it comes to the battle , and so he decides to appease Theridamas , and he uses his words as weapons . |
| 4 | And so he thinks of his labour as a commodity , like tea or iron . |
| 5 | But B knows that he will catch everything going — and so he does . |
| 6 | And so he glares them when they come in ? |
| 7 | And so he continues . |
| 8 | She went up with little lad and he were watching it and he says I would n't mind this , well Arthur says I 'd al he 'd already taped it off telly and so he says I 'll tell you what you can have it if you give me a blank |
| 9 | And I , yes he came and so he says I 've got the keys to the flat he said , you do n't want to come and look at it do you ? |
| 10 | y y i it can happen and apparently sometimes does that the young man will receive a recycled wife who is in fact the mother of a daughter who has married his father and so he calls her the daughter-mother , her actual mother is his wife . |
| 11 | New things had happened , the spread of the scientific temper , erm reasonably effective and cheap methods of contraception , the emancipation of women due to the development of industry , the decay of Christianity , all these various factors made the old conception of marriage out of date , and so he takes it in hand , he pillories it , and he suggests new possibilities , of which one seems to be nowadays obtaining favour , that 's trial marriage , i.e. that people should experiment with living together erm so long as they do n't intend at that stage to have children , before they finally decide to marry and settle down . |
| 12 | And so he drifts towards vanishing point : ‘ One may argue about everything endlessly , but from me nothing has come but negation , with no magnanimity and no force . |
| 13 | and so he prowls the globe |
| 14 | And so he turns aside under a pine tree , lays his sword and oliphant under him and lies down to die : he makes his confession , holds up his right glove to God and angels come and carry his soul to Paradise . |
| 15 | And so he turns the Galatians to think about Jesus Christ . |
| 16 | And so he deserves |
| 17 | Dare n't risk being seen and so he makes his plans . |
| 18 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |
| 19 | There have been months when he has n't found any work at all and so he returns home for short periods . |
| 20 | Yes I mean issue with illegitimate children or his affair means that I mean even the line he was running is okay because I 'm rich so it 's not gon na and it 's not gon na and so he 's got these two sort of values , that if you are a single parent and you 're poor that makes you lesser and more immoral than if you were a single parent and you 're rich . |
| 21 | A Ewe owned by farmer John Davies has lost a lamb during birth and so he 's been put in touch with Mrs Hunter Blair by the farmers union . |
| 22 | And so he 's taken off the and wa wants to do |
| 23 | And so he ascribes all the dark aspects of Presocratic drama to the imperfection of a young and immature culture . |
| 24 | This scene reveals that Macbeth is now feeling insecure and paranoid about losing the kingship and so he consults the witches as to what will happen to him . |
| 25 | And so he sets off on foot , aiming nowhere . |
| 26 | There 's aids and he 's chasing the bum and the bum 's running and the aids is going come on you little bastard and he 's going leave me alone and so he runs up a tree and there 's a bird there and he 's got all bones on him , he 's a s witch doctor and the bird goes , and the bird goes , what 's a matter ? |
| 27 | And so he represses the part of himself which used to cry for the moon . |
| 28 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 29 | However Steve decided it would be unfair for the winners to go without some kind of reward , and so he intends to pop round to show you his collection of ‘ Bunty ’ comics — expect him within the next 28 days . |
| 30 | He wants me , she thought with panic , and then hot on the heels of that thought came another ; he wants me because he 's spent the afternoon and evening with the woman he loves but ca n't have , and so he wants to release some of that frustration on me . |